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Show Red Cross Furnishes Gamma Globulin for New Lifesaving Use De paid for by the parents, it would amount to approximately $12,000 per year, which 1j mora than Red Cross is seeking: this year in Utah County to finance both the local and national program pro-gram for the coming year. Wholehearted Whole-hearted support by thte people of this County will insure the continuation con-tinuation of this vital service, a well as the other more well-known services. to manufacture enough gamma globulin, on its own, to furnish the needed resistance to disease. This substance is obtained from One of the newest aspects of the Red Cress Flood Research! program is the discovery of a new use for gamma globulin, a derivative deriva-tive of blood, which has previously been used in connection with the prevention of modification of measles, meas-les, polio, and infectious hepatitis (yellow jaundice.) Gamma globulin is the part of the blood that carries anti-bodies which give a person immunity or resistance to various diseases and infections. Reoent research, by Utah doctors, has disclosed that some persons have an inadequate amount of this substance in their blood stream, and they are therefore there-fore prone to infections, chronic colds, and othe rdiseases. These persons are primarily small children, child-ren, who were formerly referred to as "puny" or "sickly" children. Medioal science, in conjunction with the Red Cross Blood program, pro-gram, has discovered that the administration ad-ministration of regularly scheduled schedul-ed doses of this vital gamma globulin, glo-bulin, over an indeterminate period, per-iod, enaible the body eventually blood that has been donated in Red Cross, for use as whole blood in community hospitals, but which has become out-dated (that is, more than 21 days old) before it could be transfused. In effect, g'am-ma g'am-ma globulin is a "dividend" of the Red Cress blood program and the supply is dependent upon the a-mount a-mount of out-date whole blood available for processing. The cost of this processing is bome by the national organization of Red Cross out of funds collected from chap-ters chap-ters throughout the country. In some cases'in Utah County, involving small children, gamma globulin has actually saved lives according to the doctors and parents par-ents of these children. Typical of these extremes are the. cases of Suzie Jensen, 3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Jensen of Orem, and Gloria Christensen, 20 months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Christensen of Provo. Gloria's brother, Grant, 3, also has been receiving it but is now able to "make his own." These parents have stressed the fact that but for this precious substance, their children chil-dren "would not be alive today." These are just three of the 600 children and adults throughout the state who are benefitting from this program. Utah receives more gamma gam-ma globulin than any other state in thte west because the research was done here, and our doctors are more aware of its value. In Utah County, over 200 children chil-dren (one-third of the total in Utah) are receiving this blood product pro-duct free, fr.em the Red Cross each month even though local citizens are not being asked to donate blood to the Red Cross for the civilian program. If this were to |